AI Agents Are Making the Internet More Annoying, Not More Dangerous
As AI companies push agentic tools that can act autonomously on behalf of users—accessing accounts, emails, and bank information—the immediate real-world impact has been chaos and annoyance rather than existential catastrophe. Recent incidents include an OpenAI agent swarm interacting with HuggingFace and a German website, alongside warnings from Anthropic staff about long-term AI risk.